Francesco Arena

Italian | 1978

Francesco Arena is an Italian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1978. Numerous key galleries and museums such as La Galleria Nazionale have featured Francesco Arena's work in the past.Francesco Arena's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 660 USD to 1,533 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,533 USD for Snow, sold at Pandolfini in 2018. Francesco Arena has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtLyst in April 2024.

Artist's alternative names: Francesco D'arena

At Auction

Notable Lots

Senza titolo ,1954

By Francesco Arena

-48%

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Portrait with Komejini - Francesco Arena

Portrait with Komejini ,2007

By Francesco Arena

+267%

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S.t. (Darwin) ,2007

By Francesco Arena

+219%

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Recent Auction Results

Intuizione , 1959 ,1959

By Francesco Arena

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Grande pannello stellato - Francesco Arena

Grande pannello stellato ,2009

By Francesco Arena

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Orizzonte mancante ,2012

By Francesco Arena

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Past Exhibitions

In a Light Breeze

Fondazione Memmo

Rome | Italy

Dec 14,2024 - Mar 31,2025

Francesco Arena: L'Âge d'airain

Prats Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona

Barcelona | Spain

Feb 06,2025 - Mar 22,2025

Cutting Clouds: Tagliando le nuvole

Madre, Museo d鈥橝rte Contemporanea Donnaregina

Naples | Italy

Sep 26,2024 - Jan 07,2025

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Articles

ArtLyst 22/04/2024

In the hugely competitive world of art fairs, timing, as we know, is everything, but the location is equally important.

Forbes 21/04/2024

The 28th annual edition of the international art fair Miart last week kicked off a month of art, architecture, design and fashion in Italy鈥檚 most fashionable city.

WHITEWALL 08/04/2024

Open to the public from April 12-14 in Milan with visionary collaborations and sweeping city-wide art activations throughout the city, miart 2024: 鈥渘o time no space鈥� blurs all boundaries for an all-embracing showcase of the divinity and transcendence of art.

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Coverage

鈥� ..1 Arena shows three sculptures in polished bronze, self-portraits in which the artist emphasizes the length of his beard after 57, 110 and 210 days of growth... 鈥�
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Raffaella Cortese Galleria

鈥� .. Appealing to sculpture, installation, perfomance, process and conceptualism, Arena鈥檚 works mine the tension between the apparent simplicity of objects, and the complexity of the histories to which they... 鈥�
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Galería Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona

鈥� ..Consistent with the artist鈥檚 research interlacing historic memory, shared and private, Tre sequenze per voce sola [Three arrangements for a solo], marks a new chapter in Arena鈥檚 poetics... 鈥�
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Raffaella Cortese Galleria

鈥� ..Arena juxtaposes the natural landscape with the architectural space, in this case the gallery, with the measurements of the human body acting as a meeting point... 鈥�
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Sprovieri Gallery

鈥� ..Employing his own body as a unit of measurement Arena consistently implicates his own person in addressing and representing historical events, in this way showing that stories and history, memory and oblivion... 鈥�
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Galería Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona